Criterion References, TV, and You

[Luke M]

How did you guys miss Alex's “I just got the Criterion Collection of Clueless, so I’ll see you guys later. I hope not sporadically!” line?

[domino harvey]

I'm sure someone could do a supercut of all the make believe Criterion Collection jokes on assorted TV shows. It's not even a recent trend, Autumn Reeser did one eight years ago on the OC!

[Luke M]

Oh wow, that's the first time I ever heard Criterion Collection mentioned on a show. I never saw the OC but Autumn Reeser won me over with her short stint on Entourage.

[domino harvey]

Her character on the OC at one point also invites Rachel Bilson over for a sleepover to watch the Decalogue!

[Murdoch]

O.C. producer Josh Schwartz is quite the cinephile, I remember Hilary Duff saying "I love Go-dard" on Gossip Girl.

[domino harvey]

Ha, and by happenstance, just yesterday I watched an episode of the OC where Ryan Atwood of all characters is shown handling the Criterion edition of Solaris

[colinr0380]

Do they talk in depth about the debate surrounding the blue tinting to the scenes, or was it the Blu-ray? I need to know immediately!!

[Andre Jurieu]

How did you guys miss Alex's “I just got the Criterion Collection of Clueless, so I’ll see you guys later. I hope not sporadically!” line?

Oh wow, that's the first time I ever heard Criterion Collection mentioned on a show. I never saw the OC...

Well, I assume this means you ignore my posts entirely since I've pointed out both of those Criterion Collection mentions almost the day after the episodes aired. I will try not to take this personally and hope that my ego recovers slowly over time.

I'm sure someone could do a supercut of all the make believe Criterion Collection jokes on assorted TV shows

It would obviously start with Kenny Powers offering Stevie his "Criterion Collections" edition of Friends, Season 6 (and Eastbound & Down actually made their reference to Criterion on the same week as Happy Endings).

[The Narrator Returns]

There's also the scene in Delocated where Jon Glaser tells FBI agents to get a Russian mole "the Criterion edition of Face/Off, it's got extras on it".

[domino harvey]

Well, I assume this means you ignore my posts entirely since I've pointed out both of those Criterion Collection mentions almost the day after the episodes aired. I will try not to take this personally and hope that my ego recovers slowly over time.

I just spent actual minutes confirming his story and it checks out. Points subtracted for not mentioning in a timely fashion that Ryan's dad used Frank Perry as his pseudonym, though

Do we have an OC thread? I recently finished the whole series (as you could probably guess from the last couple posts here) and it's one of the few shows I can think of that actually got drastically better in its last season!

[Professor Wagstaff]

In the last season of "Fringe", Walter laments having to destroy his laserdisc player by saying, "Criterion Collection, forgive me."

[domino harvey]

It's a little scary that Googling "Criterion Collection references" already turns up this thread as the fifth hit, considering I only just split it off minutes ago!

[jindianajonz]

It's a little scary that Googling "Criterion Collection references" already turns up this thread as the fifth hit, considering I only just split it off minutes ago!

I've actually had quite a few instances where googling information on films (even ones not in the collection) have returned with this site ranking among the first few hits.

[cdnchris]

There's an episode of Frasier where Niles tries to talk everyone into watching The Unbearable Lightness of Being and he's holding the Criterion version. Ross doesn't approve.

[flyonthewall2983]

I think the DiNozzo character on NCIS name-dropped Criterion once (ironic considering both the actor playing the character and Mark Harmon are both in Criterion films).

[domino harvey]

Discussion of the OC moved to the Josh Schwartz thread

[roujin]

I remember in Gossip Girl, one of the characters was going to a friend's house to have a marathon session of Berlin Alexanderplatz.

[manicsounds]

Although not in an actual episode, one of the commentary tracks of "Parks and Recreation" talks about a hopeful future Criterion edition of "Parks and Recreation" releases.

[djproject]

I remember in Gossip Girl, one of the characters was going to a friend's house to have a marathon session of Berlin Alexanderplatz.

And, of course, in The Critic, Jay Sherman declares they (he and his son Marty) will rent Berlin Alexanderplatz ... to wit, Marty replies "Again?"

[domino harvey]

Her character on the OC at one point also invites Rachel Bilson over for a sleepover to watch the Decalogue!

Did Criterion just tweet out screencaps of this scene?

[miless]

I was quite tickled at some of the "Criterion" references in the new season of MST3K. the two that I remember off the top of my head were jokes relating to Tati in Reptilicus and Solaris in Cry Wilderness.

[Minkin]

Sorry, this isn't a Criterion related reference (perhaps late night tv could've worked), but this is as good as I can find.

Has the movie: Monster from the Ocean Floor been mentioned on tv or news or anything lately (or perhaps a remake is in the works)? I've been inundated with emails from people asking about the DVD that I was selling on Amazon (since sold to someone who didn't even email me). I can't figure out why there's so many people interested in it all of a sudden, so I assume it was referenced somewhere recently.